“If this goes wrong, we will also be ready in the rest of the Netherlands,” writes COA director Joeri Kapteijns in July 2022 about forcing the municipality of Tubbergen to create an asylum seekers’ center in Albergen. Dozens of internal documents, e-mails and Whatsapp messages requested by RTV Oost show that the COA took the municipality of Tubbergen as a test to test forcing a municipality to use azc reception. A reconstruction.